<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Carlos Nazareno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:object404@gmail.com">object404@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey Caroline! Great hearing from you. Wow :) It's an honor hearing<br>
that you've got some guys working over here flipside :)<br>
<br>
Hey, so are you guys into Moodle too? It's one solution that could<br>
save educators lots and lots of time and make teaching more efficient.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, Martin is working on integrating Sugar and Moodle with single sign on, groups reflected in your Jabber friends/neighborhood etc. We hope to jump on that as soon at its done. Do you work with Moodle? <br>
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<br>
Kung Hei Fat Choi!<br>
(Happy Chinese New Year! - (Hokkien/Fookien, the more commonly spoken<br>
Chinese dialect here in the Ph))<br>
<br>
-Naz<br>
<br>
2009/1/22 Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi Naz,<br>
><br>
> I'm Caroline Meeks, I'm on the US side of Solution Grove, about half of<br>
> Solution Grove (4 people, we are small) are in the Philippines, south of<br>
> Manila, not that far from Don Bosco Technical College<br>
><br>
> We are working on a pilot in Boston of Sugar on a Stick, that is bootable<br>
> USB sticks that work on equipment already in the schools and homes and<br>
> donated used equipment from local companies.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a><br>
><br>
> This is another option your organization can consider if you have schools<br>
> that have computers and/or access to cheap used computers. Might be a good<br>
> fit for Don Bosco Technical College's elementary school.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Caroline<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Carlos Nazareno <<a href="mailto:object404@gmail.com">object404@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Ciao Bernie!<br>
>><br>
>> It's an honor to meet you :)<br>
>><br>
>> As a situationer, things are still a bit preliminary at this point re:<br>
>> OLPC Philippines.<br>
>><br>
>> There were plans to do a pilot in a school in Aklan (where the famous<br>
>> Boracay beach is located) c/o Mike Kouklis, but AFAIK it did not push<br>
>> through. There was another one that was proposed for Don Bosco<br>
>> Technical College, but some of us are not updated about the progress<br>
>> in that regards. (Charles? How are the plans for the pilot for Don<br>
>> Bosco going?)<br>
>><br>
>> One of the things that have been talked about and we're leaning<br>
>> towards to is for whatever pilot to be launched is to start in a<br>
>> private school laboratory environment where there are enough<br>
>> IT-trained staff to support the program, integrate into the<br>
>> curriculum, and evaluate the effectivity of the program and then to<br>
>> knowledge-transfer the experience for future deployments in broader<br>
>> areas and public schools. Another concern is security as these are<br>
>> still very expensive machines and each cost more than the average<br>
>> Filipino's take-home monthly pay.<br>
>><br>
>> Anyway, most of us are meeting up at the end of January to discuss the<br>
>> status and direction of the grassroots efforts over here and we'll<br>
>> keep everyone updated!<br>
>><br>
>> All the best,<br>
>><br>
>> -Naz<br>
>><br>
>> P.S. Happy goodbye George W. week everyone! ;) heheh<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > It occurred to me that I haven't properly introduced myself to this<br>
>> > list. I was a member of the OLPC development team and one of the<br>
>> > founders of Sugar Labs. Last year, I went to Kathmandu for three<br>
>> > months to help OLE Nepal customize and deploy Sugar and the<br>
>> > Schoolserver. At this time, I'm taking care of Sugar Labs' fledgling<br>
>> > development infrastructure and web presence.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > My main interest is growing our volunteer community and commercial<br>
>> > partnerships. I'll soon be leaving the United States and Caroline<br>
>> > Meeks suggested that the Philippines might become a good place for us<br>
>> > to establish new relationships with developers and educators; to plan<br>
>> > future Sugar deployments.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Here's a concrete proposal: in exchange for reimbursement of travel<br>
>> > expenses and housing, I can offer my time (let's say 3 months) to<br>
>> > train developers and educators in working with Sugar and with the<br>
>> > School server. A possible goal could be building a team capable of<br>
>> > developing new Sugar activities or extend existing ones to match the<br>
>> > requirements of the state curriculum for primary schools. Core<br>
>> > Schoolserver and Sugar development would also be a highly valued goal<br>
>> > for us. I'd also like to help organize a Local Lab (which is how we<br>
>> > call our local units), reach out to universities and NGOs for support<br>
>> > and relay local feedback and requests to the core development team.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'd be available for this project starting from the second half of<br>
>> > February. Please, get me in contact with whoever might be interested<br>
>> > in such a proposal.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > // Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a><br>
>> > \X/ Sugar Labs - <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> > _______________________________________________<br>
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>> ><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
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> Caroline Meeks<br>
> Solution Grove<br>
> Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br>
><br>
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Adobe Flash/Flex User Group<br>
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--<br>
"if you don't like the way the world is running,<br>
then change it instead of just complaining."<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>